I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.